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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1934
Page
7
Reynolds Store Virginia October notes farm and town scenes with multiple residents visiting relatives in Gainesboro Winchester Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs. Local movements include births visits hospital stays and highway department activity amid community life.
Mr and Mrs H L Braithwaite and family and Mr and Mrs A G Braithwaite drove to Shepherstown West Virginia Sunday to visit Mr and Mrs A G Luttrell. Recent visitors at C G Bakers home included Curtis Funkhouser Alvin Baker and Hazel Baker from Washington DC Beatrice Baker and Dale Baker with family from Martinsburg and Winchester attended.
GREENSPRING Va Oct 18 Mr and Mrs J E McDonald of Martinsburg spent the past week with the former s sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs U S Fries. Mr and Mrs Shipe and children and Miss Joyce Nagley and brother Max of Martinsburg were calling on Mr and Mrs E P Nagley Sunday. Mrs Floretta Lynn and son Edgar spent the past week with Mrs Lynn s daughter Mrs Hunter Strobridge. Saturday night guests at the home of Mr and Mrs E H Strobridge were Mr and Mrs Dale Davis of Alexandria Va and Mr and Mrs Russell McCormick and little son Dale of Winchester.
Mrs Ruth M Kerns and Mr and Mrs E R Dailey hosted visitors including Page Heironi mus and family from Washington DC and Shade from Martinsburg. Lucille Dailey and Donald Dailey spent the weekend with E R Dailey grandparents. Several households reported guests from Gainesboro Winchester Glengary and Martinsburg with DeHaven Whitacre and Shade families among attendees.
Refuge Virginia reports Rev C C Bush preached a farewell sermon Sunday afternoon and will be succeeded by Rev F M Lucas. Local social notes include visits from Cedarville's Ben Steele to C R Green, the Bowmans with sons Jimmie and Beverley to L L Bowman, Stephens City guests Arthur Grim and Julia Grim, Mollie Carroll of Maryland visiting area friends, and Ben Derflinger with son Lucius visiting James Orndorff.
Dr Flickinger and son from Winchester visited Mr J B Snapp in Rosenberger. Mrs Ida Good and Miss Lora Good of Winchester spent the weekend with Mrs J B Snapp. Guests from Winchester included Mr and Mrs Raymond Bradfield Mr Maynard Brewer Miss Beatrice Gaskins Miss Maud Brewer and Mrs Bessie Lonas at William Brewer’s home. A number of locals hosted visits from Washington and Mountain Falls as well as business callers in the area.
Advertisement touts Cremulsion as seven in one cough and cold remedy. Claims powerful yet harmless relief with pleasant taste. Druggist offers on the spot money back if cough or cold not relieved. No narcotics mentioned.
The article notes that the Hop Indians of California used scalps as currency, salt cakes persisted as money in Abyssinia, and shell bead necklaces held value in parts of China, Java, and other regions. It also mentions rising burials in Finchley, London, and details medicines obtained from toad heads, including ergosterol.
A brief 1921 notice seeking a respectable family helper for winter duties in exchange for room. Respond by writing Miss B care Star. Also a separate 1911 notice seeks a 16 year old boy with a bicycle, apply at Postal Telegraph Office.
Winchester Presbytery will convene at Charles Town Presbyterian Church on Tuesday October 23 at 730 pm. Rev Allen Jones will preach the opening sermon and a moderator will be elected. Missionary address by Rev L A McMurrray from Mutoto Congo Belge.
Hoot Gibson and Miss June Gale headline at Hable's Palace Theatre today Friday and Saturday. Gibson, famous cowboy, and Gale arrive from Hollywood to celebrate the theatre’s third anniversary. Also today only Richard Cromwell and Arline Judge star in When Strangers Meet with a Fox Movietone news reel.
Warner Bros. Cap itol presents a two film program today only starring Diana Wynyard Clive Brook Jack Holt Mona Barrie and a plot centered on a faltering marriage and a political fixer. Let's Try Again follows a surgeon and wife drifting after early passion as they seek fresh loves. I'll Fix It follows a genial power broker facing a schoolteacher who refuses bribery over algebra marks.
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